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Headword:
*)anti/palon
Adler number: alpha,2699
Translated headword: matched in opposition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It means three things: opposed and equally-matched and equally-balanced.[1]
"For the contest will not be of evenly matched force[s]."[2]
Greek Original:*)anti/palon: tri/a shmai/nei: to\ e)nanti/on kai\ to\ i)so/palon kai\ to\ i)so/strofon. ou) ga\r e)c a)ntipa/lou th=s duna/mews o( a)gw\n e)/stai.
Notes:
A wrestling term, in origin.
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.3.52 (web address 1); in late autumn 539 CE, Armenian envoys urge the Persian king Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) to go to war against the Romans; cf. Kaldellis (79).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; definition; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@16:09:58.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; added note; cosmetics) on 12 March 2001@04:42:47.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 15 August 2002@03:31:46.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 March 2012@11:12:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added link) on 22 December 2023@10:55:25.
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